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Ep. 339: Let Brandon Cook

2025/2/10
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通过深度工作和数字极简主义等概念,推动人们重新思考工作方法和技术使用方式。
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Cal Newport: 我在播客中讨论了布兰登·桑德森的生产力模式,即"让布兰登做他擅长的事"。这种模式的核心是让那些拥有高回报技能的人专注于他们的核心工作,并最大限度地减少其他干扰。我认为这种模式非常有效,但它在知识工作领域并不常见。这主要是因为现代数字环境中的低摩擦沟通工具(如电子邮件)导致了无休止的请求和分心,从而使人们难以专注于高价值任务。为了解决这个问题,企业应该建立明确的工作流程和规则,以保护那些高价值员工的时间和专注力,让他们能够专注于核心工作,从而提高整体生产力。 此外,桑德森的模式还包含两个关键要素:减少不必要的工作和整合剩余的工作。减少是指尽可能地减少那些不必要的工作,将时间和精力集中在核心工作上。整合是指将剩余的工作集中在一起,以减少其对核心工作的影响。通过减少和整合,可以确保高价值员工能够最大限度地发挥他们的技能和创造力。 这种模式虽然不适用于所有工作,但它可以作为一种有效的生产力策略,并有助于对抗知识工作领域中普遍存在的伪生产力现象。伪生产力是指将可见的努力等同于有用的努力,它会导致人们过度忙碌,而忽略了实际成果。通过让一些员工专注于核心工作,企业可以树立一种以成果为导向的生产力文化,从而提高整体效率和工作满意度。 Brandon Sanderson: 我的公司一切都是围绕着‘让布兰登专注于写作’而建立的,尽可能地减少我需要思考或处理的事情。我的核心工作是写作,这是公司所有收入的来源。因此,保护我的写作时间和专注力至关重要。为了实现这一点,公司会尽可能地帮我处理其他事务,例如安排我的行程、处理邮件等等。这样我就可以将所有的时间和精力都投入到写作中,从而最大限度地提高我的写作效率和产出。

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Cal Newport discusses how Brandon Sanderson's productivity model of focusing on high-value tasks can be applied to knowledge work, emphasizing the need to minimize distractions and maximize output.
  • Brandon Sanderson's company is designed to let him focus solely on writing, minimizing distractions.
  • This model is likened to letting someone 'cook' in their field, maximizing their high-value output.
  • The rarity of this model in other knowledge work sectors is due to the pervasive use of digital communication tools that encourage constant distraction.
  • Cal emphasizes the need for organizations to have roles that allow individuals to focus on their core, high-return activities.
  • He argues that embracing this model could challenge the current pseudo-productivity paradigm.

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In a recent appearance on the Tim Ferriss podcast, the prolific fantasy author Brandon Sanderson revealed how he reshaped his media company to help him do what he does best. In this episode, Cal explores the idea, and asks the key question: why is this not more common? While exploring an answer, Cal uncovers a bigger issue in modern digital knowledge work and points towards potential answers. He then answers listener questions and concludes with a tech corner about Alan Turing.

 

Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo)

 

Video from today’s episode:  youtube.com/calnewportmedia)

 

Deep Dive: Let Brandon Cook [4:56]

 

  • What is your opinion on mind mapping and have you ever used it? [32:35]

  • What “really matters” to develop career capital for a civil servant? [36:28]

  • What’s your view on Daniel Immerwahr’s recent New Yorker article on the attention crisis? [42:23]

  • How does mentoring fit into knowledge work development? [49:54]

  • Is it possible to use Paul Jarvis’s approach to start a company to merge the divide with Slow Productivity? [57:20]

  • CALL: A 15-year-old and a smartphone [1:03:28]

 

CASE STUDY: Using AI to expand work skills [1:07:59]

 

TECH CORNER: Let Turing Cook [1:21:41]

 

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Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at calnewport.com/slow)

Get a signed copy of Cal’s “Slow Productivity” at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cal-newport/)

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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, Kieron Rees for the slow productivity music, and Mark Miles for mastering.